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Reuters: Caffeine, exercise may help ward off skin cancer
"Both caffeine and exercise alone increased by roughly 100 percent the mice's ability to kill off precancerous cells that could lead to skin cancer compared to the mice that did neither. But the mice that did both showed a nearly 400 percent increase in this ability, the researchers found.">

Skin Cancer Prevalence
According to the American Melanoma Foundation, one person dies every hour of every day from skin cancer. Skin cancer is the most common human cancer. One million people are diagnosed with new skin cancer every year. One in five Americans will develop skin cancer at some point in their lives. Skin cancer will kill more than 10,850 Americans this year. Skin cancer rates have more than tripled in the last 30 years even with the explosion in the use of sunscreen and sunblock products and a high percentage of the population reducing sun exposure.

Skin Cancer Animal Model
The National Cancer Institute explains that hairless mice are used for skin cancer studies. Human skin tissue has been grafted to these mice to create an optimal creature for evaluating causes of skin cancer as well as skin cancer treatments as applicable to humans. Many treatments developed on these mice are currently effective treatments for humans. In addition, these mice and their reaction to excessive exposure to UV light is the main reason that scientists have concluded that excessive exposure to sunlight can cause skin cancer.

Causes and Risk Factors
The most popular cause of skin cancer is UV light, or excessive exposure to sunlight. However, there are other potential causes. In this article hosted on WebMD, 4 Commonly Used Moisturizing Creams Promote Tumors in UV-Exposed Mice, a study by Allan H. Conney, PhD, director of the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research and professor in the school of pharmacy at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., the use of common moisturizers, including Eucerin, Vanicream, Dermabase and Dermovan caused a statistically significant increase in skin cancer in hairless mice. The Food and Drug Administration classifies moisturuizers as 'cosmetics'. The manufacturers are not required to undergo the same safety testing as drugs. In addition, according to The Food and Drug Administraiton BHAs and AHAs, chemicals such as salicylic acid, alpha hydroxy acid and other chemical exfoliants have been shown to increase skin cancer risk. Benzoyl peroxide, a common ingredient in most over-the-counter acne preparations is clearly stated by scientists as a "tumor promoter" and has the ability to cause skin cancer without exposure to UV light. According to earlier research, What Every Parent Needs to Know About Benzoyl Peroxide, benzoyl peroxide is an effective tumor promoter in not only mice, but also rats and hamsters.

Caffeine Research
There is a possibility that you can cut your skin cancer risk by 50-70% - no matter what chemicals you choose to rub on your skin or how much sun exposure you have received. According to Dr. Allan Conney, a professor of cancer and leukemia research at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., "We had between 50 to 70% tumor formation inhibition in the mice that were treated with caffeine or with EGCG (the other chemical compound)." An article in USA Today, Putting caffeine on skin lowers risk of cancer in lab mice gives further details of the results of the study by Dr. Conney. An overview of some of the studies done by Conney and others:

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